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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1 - 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the trumpeter thinking when he sees the fierce men looking up at him after the attack on Krakow?
(a) He knows he is alone in the midst of a terrible enemy.
(b) He decides to flee to the castle.
(c) He thinks he should kill himself.
(d) He decides to wait for the Polish army to rescue him.

2. What is unusual about one of the wagons in the caravan?
(a) It is larger than any of the other wagons.
(b) It is being pulled by a man and is carrying several children.
(c) It is led by two horses and it is carrying a very large pumpkin.
(d) It is fancier than the rest of the wagons.

3. How does Pan Andrew Charnetski know the stranger is not Polish?
(a) By the stranger's accent.
(b) By the stranger's clothing.
(c) By the stranger's food.
(d) By the stranger's foreign features.

4. Which best describes the Tartars?
(a) Compassionate people who invade but do not do much damage.
(b) Inexperienced warriors.
(c) Peaceful people who just want some more land.
(d) Like wild beasts who leave nothing alive.

5. What ultimately happens to the trumpeter in 1241?
(a) He escapes the Tartars while playing the trumpet.
(b) He is killed by a Tartar with a bow and arrow while he is playing the Heynal.
(c) A Tartar shoots him when he is done playing.
(d) A Polish man accidentally shoots him with a bow and arrow.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Joseph find his family a place to stay?

2. What is the Heynal?

3. What is the name of the fortress and castle of the king of Poland on a hill above the Vistula River?

4. In Chapter 2, whom does Pan Andrew say he has to come to see?

5. In the midst of all the destruction after the attack on Krakow, there is one Polish person left alive. Who is it?

(see the answer key)

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